the first live music social network

Live music.
Real community.
True connection.

The digital spaces that were supposed to connect us are driving us apart. eResonate rebuilds social networking from the ground up — authentic live music, virtual environments, genuine human connection.

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"eResonate is Twitch for all live music fans."

— Bing Gordon, Board of Directors, Twitch · CPO, Kleiner Perkins

"eResonate is yesterday's MTV for today's musicians."

— Doc McGhee, Manager of KISS, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe
What is eResonate

The first live music social network.

eResonate streams live performances from intimate and iconic venues to fans everywhere — free, no paywall, ever. Musicians and venues keep 100% of the revenue generated in and around their live performances — ad dollars, merch, and backstage passes — and set their own split before each show with built-in show-scheduling tools. Around the music, we build real community: fans connect with each other and their favorite artists, and hang out in virtual backstage rooms after the set.

eResonate earns its own revenue from programmatic advertising sold platform-wide — so the network only wins when the room is full. One streamed show can pay an artist roughly 49× what YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Spotify pay combined for the same audience. It's the Twitch playbook, on the bigger stage of live music.

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LIVE 12.7K watching
The World Is Broken

The world is more disconnected than ever before.

The digital spaces that were supposed to connect us are now driving us apart. Legacy platforms utilize algorithms designed to spike cortisol, not create connections — and in 2026 the feed stopped being reliably human at all.

They amplify divisive content.

Platforms like X, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram have built entire ecosystems around influencer culture and synthetic content — leaving people feeling more isolated than ever.

70%
more likely a falsehood outspreads the truth — MIT, 2018

They create echo chambers.

Algorithms prioritize engagement over authenticity, manufacturing outrage and fetishizing everything. It's not real connection — it's a cortisol loop.

64%
of extremist-group joins came from platform recommendations — Facebook, 2020

And now the feed isn't even human.

More than half of all new music uploaded each day is fully machine-generated. The major labels have licensed the AI song generators. The industry has started labeling recordings so listeners can tell a person made them — because otherwise they can't.

50%+
of daily music uploads are now fully AI-generated — Deezer, 2026

eResonate has rebuilt social networking from the ground up — around the one thing no machine can generate: a real performance, happening right now, in a room full of real people.

The Opportunity

Live music has never been bigger.
Live streaming has never grown faster.

151M
fans at ~55,000 Live Nation events alone in 2024
4T+
global music streams in 2024
32.4B
hours of live content watched in 2024
8x
more time spent watching live vs pre-recorded content
47%
of Gen Z prefer live streams over TV (24%) and movies (11%)
$50B
live music industry ripe for transformation

It's time to transform the $50B live music industry.

The Problem

The live music industry is stuck in the 80s.

Nothing has changed for musicians, venues, or fans. The $400B U.S. media and advertising industry is equally broken.

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Fans

  • High ticket prices
  • Geographic constraints
  • Scheduling conflicts
  • No direct connection to artists
  • Missing great talent
  • Limited access to live shows
🎸

Artists

  • Starving artists — tip jars & merch
  • Touring at a loss
  • Hard to be discovered
  • No sponsorship/advertising revenue
  • No tools to grow global audiences
🏟

Venues

  • Tight margins
  • Ticket sales limitations
  • High operating expenses
  • Lack of technology and tools
  • Live show uncertainty & risk

Advertising is broken too.

Ad-blockers, Apple/Google/Microsoft blocking third-party cookies, and millions of advertisers who can no longer target specific audiences have left the $400B U.S. media industry scrambling. Brands need a new, authentic way to reach music fans.

$400B

U.S. Media & Advertising industry — highly inefficient, hungry for new options

The Solution

Authentic social networking. High-quality live streaming. Interactive virtual environments — built for genuine engagement.

📡

Free Hardware Install

eResonate installs high-quality, low-cost performance capture hardware and integrated software in venues worldwide. Average venue onboarding cost: under $4K.

💰

100% Ad Revenue Shared

Every dollar of performance ad revenue is split between venues and artists. Zero cost, pure upside — a new income stream for the entire ecosystem.

🎵

Free For Fans

Fans stream live performances for free, discover emerging artists as they break, and access exclusive new levels of engagement with their favorite acts.

📊

Proprietary Ad Network

Direct advertiser connection to highly engaged music fans with proprietary analytics — a premium, brand-safe alternative to broken social ad platforms.

Follow the Money

Two lanes. One rule: the performance pays the performers.

Watch a show's sponsorship dollars route straight to the people on stage — while platform ads keep the lights on and the streams free.

PERFORMANCE INVENTORY · DIRECT-SOLD split set per show by the hosts PLATFORM INVENTORY · PROGRAMMATIC feed · discovery · sidebar 🥃 Show Sponsors brands buying the moment 📡 Platform Advertisers real-time programmatic 🎸 Artist $0 tonight 🏛 Venue $0 tonight 〰 eResonate $0 · funds free shows 100% → hosts
Performance revenue — 100% to artists & venues, on the split they set Platform revenue — eResonate's lane, keeps every stream free See both lanes running live →
How It Works

A flywheel built for everyone in the ecosystem.

01

eResonate

Installs high-quality, low-cost performance capture hardware and integrated software in venues around the world and streams those shows to audiences for free.

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02

Venues

Run their sets and stream those sets on eResonate. 100% of performance ad revenue goes to venues and artists — on a split they set before each show.

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03

Artists

Perform at onboarded venues. Stream to thousands of additional audience members and collect their split of performance ad revenue.

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04

Fans

Stream live performances and interact directly with their favorite artists in virtual environments. Through these connections they build meaningful communities.

Go-To-Market Strategy

Why music first?

Music is the ultimate onboarding strategy — the broader vision extends far beyond it.

01

Musicians have built-in distribution.

Our target artists — the top tier of emerging acts — bring 100K–500K combined followers across platforms, and audiences follow artists to every new platform they join.

(fans follow artists to new platforms)
02

They deliver audiences.

Music fans are the most loyal, engaged audience on the internet — high time-on-site, high purchase intent, impossible to replicate.

(better monetization = faster adoption)
03

Artists need a new revenue source.

The existing platforms pay next to nothing. eResonate creates a new income stream that actually moves the needle for working musicians.

(100K–500K combined followers per target artist)
Platform

Built for the entire music ecosystem.

Discover music the way it was meant to be heard.

  • ✦ Fan Pages — highlight your personality with unique tools and customization
  • ✦ Music Discovery — tailored feeds and powerful search functionality
  • ✦ Communication Tools — connect with friends and bands, even during performances
  • ✦ Live Chat — engage with other fans and moderators during live shows, similar to Twitch
  • ✦ Watch on any screen — phone, tablet, laptop, and your smart TV. Put the show on the big screen in your living room
  • ✦ Live only — shows are never recorded, never replayed, and never generated. Every performance happens once, exactly like being in the room
  • ✦ Best live professional content — free, always on
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Live Now · The Troubadour
12,847 watching
🔥 unreal performance
first time watching, instant fan
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The world's biggest artists found their success on small stages.

eResonate gives global audiences a way to discover emerging artists, just as they break.

  • ✦ Band Profile Page — songs, videos, bios, and more in one place
  • ✦ Show Schedule — post upcoming events in one place
  • ✦ Link Entire Online Presence — one-stop hub for all social media and projects
  • ✦ Fan Connection — from show announcements to merch drops
  • ✦ Performance Ad Revenue — earn your split, every show
Apply as an Artist
Your Band Name
48.2K followers Next show: Tonight, 9PM
+ $507 avg revenue per show
Metallica · Troubadour · 1982
Guns N' Roses · Troubadour · 1985
Nirvana · Maxwell's · 1989
R.E.M. · 9:30 Club · 1981

Turn every show into a global event.

  • ✦ Venue Info — state-of-the-art management platform
  • ✦ Events Schedule — show upcoming events to fans worldwide
  • ✦ Show Analytics — analyze shows and demographics to improve lineups
  • ✦ Mapping & Comms — directions, messaging, calling, venue info
  • ✦ Monetization — chart revenue earnings and artist split
  • ✦ Aggregate Online Presence — socials, YouTube, and more

Free hardware, software, and installation. Average venue onboarding cost: <$4K.

Apply as a Venue
Tonight's ShowLIVE
Viewers12,847
Ad Revenue (split)$507
New Followers+342
Hardware Cost<$4K installed

Access like never before.

  • ✦ Virtual Backstage — meet and greet your favorite artists from anywhere in the world
  • ✦ Socialize with the Band — your Backstage Pass drops you into the artist's virtual hang after the show
  • ✦ Physical & Digital Merch — buy directly from backstage. Traditional and digital merchandise available
  • ✦ Rich Analytics — fan profiles, time spent, heat maps, A/B product testing, and more
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🎟 Virtual Backstage
Backstage with the artist
+1,204 super fans
🛒 Exclusive Drop Available

Key Differentiators

⚡

Free for All Parties

Free hardware install for venues. Free content for fans. Revenue upside for everyone.

🌍

Global Scale, 24/7 Content

High-volume daily content output from intimate and iconic venues and emerging artists worldwide.

🔍

Music Discovery

Fans are there when emerging artists break — across all genres, from every corner of the world.

📈

Proprietary Ad Network

Direct advertiser access to music fans with proprietary analytics — a premium alternative to broken platforms.

Launch Campaign

The Coming Home Tour

Three superstars return to the intimate venues that gave them their start — streaming exclusively on eResonate.

3

Artists

Three major artists with wide audience demographics and deeply engaged fanbases return to where it all began.

3 Artists.
3 Nights.
3 Venues.
1 Sponsor.
3

Iconic Venues

Three anchor venues with deep history — outfitted with premium production equipment and streaming exclusively on eResonate.

One title sponsor — full sponsorship goes directly to artists and venues. Target partners include Diageo, AB InBev, PepsiCo, and other major brands hungry for authentic music fan engagement.

Proven Streaming Engine

Powered by Livit — 250M+ live streams delivered. Sports partnerships with MLB, the Yankees, Wimbledon, and the US Open. Entertainment partnerships with NBCUniversal and USA Network.

Growth Opportunities

A platform with multiple expansion paths.

New Verticals

Comedy, sports, education, speakers — the live content model extends far beyond music.

Rights & Licensing

Marketing services for artists and venues to distribute across all social platforms at once.

Physical & Digital Merch

Branded collections, music merchandise, NFTs, designer collaborations, and more.

One-Click Music Marketing

Push marketing across all social media platforms simultaneously — one click, everywhere.

Data Analytics

Current data on emerging artists, fan demographics, and viewership for record labels.

Ticketing

Streaming + AI-powered discovery and booking. Social-native ticketing network.

Team

Leadership

Tech Leadership
Adam Blazer

Adam Blazer

Chief Operations Officer

Founder of Livit, whose patented live-streaming technology — built for the US Open, Wimbledon, Fox Sports and HBO — eResonate acquired in 2020; Adam is now our Chief Operations Officer and a board member. Earlier he co-founded JLTV and scaled its national distribution to 60M+ homes across DIRECTV, Comcast, Spectrum and Time Warner, through to exit. Two decades shipping live video at national scale.

Ryan Kieffer

Ryan Kieffer

Chief Virtual Experience Officer

Built and sold a virtual-experience business for musicians, their fans, and brands. Founded Bear Marketing, which produced the first live-music festival staged in a virtual world — avatar-native performances with live DJs — and ran campaigns for Atlantic Records and Miller Lite before its acquisition by TerraZero Technologies in under a year. As TerraZero's Chief Metaverse Officer he led virtual-world builds for PwC, Bacardi, Duolingo and Warner Records, driving $1M+ in revenue and helping facilitate a $20M acquisition. Earlier he co-founded Confidential Creative, producing music videos and animation for Maroon 5, Journey and Carrie Underwood.

eResonate owns its core live-streaming technology — Livit's patented platform, acquired in 2020 — rather than licensing a white-labeled stack.
Tech industry has talked about this for decades, but never delivered. eResonate delivers authentic interaction through live streaming and virtual environments. We have the expertise to make it real.
Gary Kucher

Gary Kucher

Founder

Former CEO of two-time Academy Award winning Manex Entertainment, two Madison Avenue advertising firms, and two fully licensed casinos. Consistently brought innovative solutions and disruptive technology to new markets.

Jeffrey Yapp

Jeffrey Yapp

Chairman

President at 20th Century Fox, Cablevision, and Hollywood Entertainment. EVP of Program Enterprises at Viacom leading MTV, VH1, CMT, and Logo. VP of Global Brand Marketing at PepsiCo and Strategic Partner for Microsoft.

Peter LeDonne

Peter LeDonne

Director of Advertising

Co-Founder of legendary entertainment industry advertising firm Ash/LeDonne. Clients included Janis Joplin, Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, and many others. Documentary filmmaker and Broadway show producer.

Mitchell Browne

Mitchell Browne

CFO

Former senior finance and accounting officer at Hulu and Yahoo. Director of Corporate Finance at AECOM. Investment banker with Wells Fargo Securities. Bottom-line driven CFO.

Advisory Board
Bing Gordon

Bing Gordon

Board of Directors, Twitch · CPO, Kleiner Perkins

Prominent figure in media and technology known for product innovation and business acumen. Instrumental in shaping the future of the social web and fostering groundbreaking applications.

"eResonate could do for live entertainment what Twitch has done for video games and Coursera has done for education — but for a much larger total addressable market."
Shane Smith

Shane Smith

Founder & Executive Chairman, VICE Media

Founder of the world's foremost youth media company, operating digital verticals, a TV production studio, a record label, a creative services agency, a book-publishing house, and a feature film division.

Doc McGhee

Doc McGhee

Legendary Music Manager

Achieved legendary status managing KISS, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe, and Darius Rucker. Renowned for his strategic management style and visionary approach to the music industry.

Musician Online Earnings Comparison

An untapped multi-billion dollar market.

With 40,000 fans, here's what existing platforms pay — versus what eResonate delivers.

Other Platforms

40,000 fans generate earnings of:

YouTube $32
TikTok $36
Instagram $36
Spotify $127
VS

eResonate

40,000 fans generate earnings of:

Band Revenue $11,416
Venue Revenue $8,416
Ad Revenue: $16,832 (split set by band & venue — 50/50 here)
Merch: $1,000
Virtual Backstage Access: $2,000
A 2-hour show — 13 TV-style spots (:30/:60/:90) before, after and in the breaks. Never over the music.
$26M
Year 2 brand revenue for Venues & Bands — 100% of profits go to bands/venues split
For Investors

A once-in-a-generation platform opportunity.

$10M
Current Raise
$40M
Post-Investment Valuation
25%
Equity Offered
11M
MAU Projected — Year 1
55M
MAU Projected — Year 2
16,543
Venue Pages Live Across the U.S. & Canada — 15,327 Indexed, All Claimable Today

Comparable Exits

Twitch
~$42M raised over 3 rounds → $970M Amazon acquisition → the default home of live gaming · 30M daily uniques · 95 min/day engagement
Coursera
$443M raised over 6 rounds → $4.3B IPO valuation (2021) · 11 min 25 sec average visit · 9.05 pages/visit

eResonate targets a larger total addressable market than Twitch and Coursera combined.

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